We know that the most important thing that you can do for your life is to build great relationships

Relationships with your family with your friends with colleagues with business partners the thing that is

Going to determine your wealth, your health, your longevity, your net worth, and also your sense of self worth, that all comes from

relationships and communication is the backbone of good relationships.

So how do you become a super communicator?

Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything, but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else, and that doesn't just apply to your money, it applies to any limited resource that you need to manage, your time, your energy, your attention,

what matters most and how do you make decisions accordingly?

That's what we're here to answer.

I'm your host on Paula Panet and with me is Pulitzer Prize winning, Charles Doe Hig.

The author of three books, most recently Supercommunicators.

You worked for the LA Times, you worked for the New York Times, now you're at the New Yorker, and what was your Pulitzer for?

It was for a series about Apple and it was actually the same year that my first book the power of habit came out

it was a pretty overwhelming year in good ways but it was a lot.

Wow then the power of habit was a mega mega

bestseller I mean that was I remember when it came out yeah yeah no I was I was

enormously fortunate to have people discover the book and and actually super communicators came out of that book a little bit

because I would get all these emails from people who said, I read the book

and I feel like I've changed my own habits.

But there's these other people whose habits I really want to change, how do I change

them and that of course is communication. Learning how to communicate with others is critical to being a success.

That leads us to today's conversation and I'm going to kick off with this question.

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